Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Iranian Minority Languages -- 2 At the Crossroads: Caspian Languages through a Sociolinguistic Lens -- 3 Mazandarani: Current Status and Future Prospects -- 4 Balochi: Literary Development, Status and Vitality -- 5 Attitudes Towards Tati Language Among its Native Speakers in Western Iran -- 6 The Bakhtiari Language: Maintenance or Shift? A Diachronic Survey on the Status of Bakhtiari in the City of Masjed Soleiman between 1996-2020 -- Part II: Non-Iranian Minority Languages -- 7 Ebb and Flow of Azeri and Persian in Iran: A Longitudinal Study in the City of Zanjan -- 8 Language Shift and Language Maintenance among Turkmen Speakers -- 9 Language Change and Maintenance among Mandaic Speakers of Iran: A Socio-linguistic Study -- 10 Armenian Language and Identity in Iran: The Case of Iranian Armenians of Isfahan -- Part III: Iranian Heritage Languages in Diaspora -- 11 Wakhi in New York: Multilingualism and Language Contact in a Pamiri Diaspora Community -- 12 Language Maintenance and Language Shift: A Perspective from the First- Generation and Second-Generation Pashto Speakers Living in the United States and Canada -- 13 Persian as a Diasporic Language in the United States: A Survey of Heritage Persian Learners at College Level -- Index